"Linux has internet connectivity built in"

Can any one please tell me what does it mean "Linux has internet connectivity built in".
Information that I have is
Linux has built in internet connectivity : Internet connectivity is part of Linux's Unix heritage. Every major distribution of Linux comes with tools that can immediately get you up and running on the internet. Most even include Netscape Navigator as their browser of choice.
How I can make use of this in my e-business application? Help would be appriciated.
Thanks in advance.

Well, the sentence you quoted sounds a lot like some basic marketing babble.
All this says is: Linux can be used to access the Internet in some way, straight from the box. So what they're saying is that you can browse the web and probably send some e-mail as well.
The point is that just about any UNIX can do this out of the box.
The nice thing about Linux is the fact that a number of its distributions come packaged with other nice tools, like web servers, DNS server software, mail server software, IRC server software, database server software... Stuff like that. But the same thing goes for these: a lot of UNIX flavors (chocolat's my favourite!) come with stuff like this!
Solaris comes with BIND for DNS, Apache for Web serving and Sendmail for mail serving.
Maybe you could tell us a little bit more about your situation and what you're trying to do. That way we can give you some more interesting info!
Cheers!
Thomas
P.S.
I have to wonder though which article you got your quote from! Because I'm curious which Linux distro would be proud to call Netscape Navigator it's "browser of choice" these days!

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